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70. Collier, William Ross and Edwin Victor Westrate. DAVE COOK OF THE ROCKIES FRONTIER GENERAL FIGHTING SHERIFF AND LEADER OF MEN.
New York, 1936. 224 pp., plates, illus.

First edition. Original cloth, near fine in very good and scarce dust jacket. This biography traces Cook's beginings in law enforcement, his guarding supply trains during the Civil War, and his amazing career as a detective. He arrested more than 3000 criminals, among them more than 50 murderers. ADAMS (GUNS) 466: "A history of this famous Colorado detective, with an extended account of the capture of Musgrove and his gang, as well as other outlaws."
$ 85.00

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